8 Worst Things The Riddler Has Ever Done
5. Covering Up The Death Of His Crush
It would be remiss to not include FOX’s Gotham show when looking at some of the more sinister and shocking acts carried out by Edward Nygma.
Throughout Gotham’s five-season run, we saw Cory Michael Smith's Eddie go from a slightly erratic, quirky sort who works alongside the GCPD, to an unhinged, murderous supervillain. And one of the absolute worst things the series’ take on The Riddler did centred around his ‘one true,’ Kristen Kringle.
After Nygma develops a crush on colleague Kringle in the show’s debut season, he ends up seeing first-hand that the apple of his eye has an abusive boyfriend. Confronting this boyfriend, Edward ends up killing him – kind of accidentally, maybe a little bit not so accidentally.
Deciding to eventually come clean to Kristen about what he’s done – largely in the hope of it winning her affection – Nygma ends up choking her to death. Supposedly, Eddie had just meant to keep Kringle silent so that he could fully explain what he’d done. Applying a tad too much force, the love of his life ends up dead in his arms.
While this itself was bad, making things worse was the fact that Edward Nygma did his best cover-up on all of this, as audiences saw a second personality emerging in Edward. That personality, of course, would see Nygma ultimately become The Riddler.